Christo Jankowitz
“As a composer one works in total isolation, and it’s then easy to lose heart. Apart from the euphoria of winning a prize of such magnitude for a work that required intense creative energy to bring about, it gives me renewed inspiration in my ongoing desire to create music of high quality.”
Hans Huyssen
Proteus Variations is a musical representation of South Africa’s varied Proteaceae family. The work was com- missioned by Radio Deutsche Welle for the South African National Youth Orchestra (2006) and dedicated to the Betty’s Bay Hack Group.
Roelof Temmingh
The Helgaard Steyn Award for 2006 was significant for two reasons. Firstly, the prize money was worth over R100 000, which made this award one of the most valuable for arts in South Africa. Secondly, the previous winner for Composition (in 2002), Prof. Roelof Temmingh, was once again selected as the winner.
Roelof Temmingh
Early challenging compositions earned him a reputation as enfant terrible of South African music of that time. Since the mid-eighties more moderate and listener-friendly music evolved, representing the more important compositions.
Stefans Grové
On his return to South African, in 1972, he was employed by the University of Pretoria. Grové was versatile in his work, which comprises almost all known music genres. At the time of his death, on 29 May 2014, he had completed the first movement of a concerto for viola and orchestra.
Peter Klatzow
Klatzow’s style can be seen as largely dependent on the Western Classical-Romantic canon, with more specific influences possibly being Brahms, Liszt, Ravel, Prokofiev, Copland, Messiaen and others.
Roelof Temmingh
The first Helgaard Steyn Award for Musical Composition was presented to Stellenbosch composer dr. Roelof Temmingh at Potchefstroom in 1990. In 2002 he also received a Helgaard Steyn Award for the German cantata on the German choral melody Wenn wir in höchsten Nöten sein and, in 2006, for the expansive oratorium work Kantorium. Both works were commissioned by the Evangelisch-Lutherische Kirche of the Pfalz, Germany.